ToolsAPI is currently undergoing one of its larger platform upgrades.
The project has been running on Laravel 8 for several years. That version has long since reached the end of its official support lifecycle, while Laravel itself has continued through several major generations.
We’re therefore moving ToolsAPI directly from Laravel 8 to Laravel 13, the current generation of the framework.
This is significantly more than a version number change. The work includes updating and replacing dependencies, modernizing older application code, adjusting integrations, improving compatibility with current PHP versions and rebuilding parts of the test suite around the newer framework.
Security maintenance is naturally part of this work as well. Moving back onto a currently supported framework gives ToolsAPI access to ongoing upstream maintenance and security updates instead of relying on an obsolete framework generation.
The migration is being performed and tested in stages before it reaches the production environment. Existing ToolsAPI services are expected to remain available while that work continues.